IBA, Zambales -- Senator Francis Pangilinan, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, urged local growers in Zambales to produce more mangoes for export to other countries.

The senator issued the statement as he cited Zambales mango as "one of the sweetest mangoes in the world."
Pangilinan, who was the guest of honor during the four-day Mango Festival, said the global market demand for these products continues to surge.

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Construction to open freeway route for trucks in San Diego County A final $17.9 million in stimulus grant-funded road work is getting underway near San Diego, as part of a huge project to untangle congestion for a heavily used truck corridor serving the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.

TCC stops liner operations The Containership Co. a startup container line founded in 2009, has ceased operation of its single service, a transpacific loop connecting three ports in China with Los Angeles.

The carrier filed a note with the Norwegian stock exchange Friday saying its liner business unit will go into “reconstruction.”

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IMO NOTE: Breaches to the food supply safety are now an on going occurrence.The IMO has taken an active role in attempting to mitigate the effect of x-microbe incidence in the supply chain by partnering with Stuart, Florida based Bio Shield, LLC and the joint effort to develop IASQ (tm) protocols.

IMO NOTE : Chilean investors see an opportunity to position themselves to profit from neighborong Peru's explosive export growth. As more and more money pours into Peru's primarily agriculture export driven economy, CSAV plans to be there to carry the cargo to market. Peru suffered a shortage of containers earlier this year due to uncontrolled growth in the export sector.Quinenco takes bigger CSAV stake Chilean conglomerate Quinenco has purchased more shares in compatriot shipping line CSAV, according to a note this week from the carrier.

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Chongqing container port boosts capacity A new container terminal in the massive interior Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has opened, according to reports.
The terminal, on the Yangtze River, will increase handling capacity at the city’s port from 800,000 TEUs annually to more than 1 million TEUs.